HS Code Classification

Having the correct data avoids parcels being seized, held or returned.

Make Product Classifications simple with Hurricane API

Accurate HS (Harmonized System) codes will prevent your goods from being delayed or seized by customs authorities.

Hurricane’s AI-enhanced solutions checks the match between the HS6 code and/or the product description provided.

HS Code Lookup

HS Code Matching Solution

Our API also identifies any invalid descriptions and will return a status code for each consignment including a provision of the most likely HS6 code, product description, 8-digit export code and 10-digit import code.

This consignment data is required by customs authorities globally.

NEW REGULATIONS

The introduction of new regulations such as ICS2 and The STOP Act in the US means complete, accurate and verifiable data is a requirement for any cross-border transaction.

Not supplying the correct data can lead to parcels being seized, destroyed, or returned at the cost of the sender.

DATA ACCURACY

				
					{
  "data": {
    "partyScreen": {
      "action": "REVIEW",
      "createdAt": "2023-06-30T20:10:53.694Z",
      "createdBy": "organization_8eb9a8fc-8d6c-470b-a887-c8876bbab79c",
      "id": "screening_f4a458b1-b508-43c2-8321-6ffaeb1009ef",
      "mode": "LIVE",
      "party": {
        "id": "party_38c08ef2-165f-434d-aa50-5ec34c05239f",
        "organization": "organization_8eb9a8fc-8d6c-470b-a887-c8876bbab79c",
        "person": {
          "firstName": "Yevgeniy",
          "lastName": "Birkyukov"
        }
      },
      "matches": [
        {
          "name": "EXACT_MATCH",
          "companyName": "NO_MATCH",
          "countryCode": "EXACT_MATCH",
          "locality": "EXACT_MATCH",
          "line1": "EXACT_MATCH",
          "scores": {
            "location": 0.99,
            "name": 0.96,
            "overall": 0.97
          },
          "deniedParty": {
            "id": "denied_party_e8f06902-d9e6-33a0-9ed3-1db0f9ffe9e5",
            "aliases": null,
            "name": "BIRYUKOV, YEVGENIY L",
            "countryCode": "RU",
            "locality": "ST. PETERSBURG",
            "line1": "Pr. Yuria Gagarina 2, Office 801"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

				
			
Data that supports sustainability

DATA ENHANCEMENT

Our data enhancement service improves any business’s data to reduce transit times and improve the customer experience.

Accurate data also drives our duties and tax calculations, so important in being able to provide a Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) solution to your customers.

KEY
TAKEAWAYS

In summary, the key takeaways for
product classification include:

Lack of the correct data can lead to parcels being seized, destroyed or returned at cost to the sender

New regulations, including the EU’s IOSS and ICS2, mean complete, accurate and valid data is a must have for any cross-border transaction

Correct data reduces transit times and enhances customer experience.

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Martin Palmer
Co-Founder

Interesting Fact: I started my working life training to be an accountant but decided I hated numbers. (Ironically I now love them!). I really wanted to join the Hong Kong Police force but couldn’t do that until i was 24. I took a temporary job in Imports and 47 years later here I am.

Favourite Music: There only was one choice. Harry Chapin. Meant a lot to me in my early years as an import broker. We played Chapin for hours and this one seemed to cover so many modes.

Favourite Quote: “No man is an island”

Neil Harmer

Operations Director

Interesting Fact:  As a Geologist my idea of the perfect beach holiday is going to the beach and investigating the rocks in the cliffs behind.

Favourite Music:  Broken Stones – Paul Weller, I’m a huge Paul Weller / The Jam fan; Broken Stones is a very relaxing song, I love the use of the electric piano in it

Favourite Quote: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”. This is a great quote by Benjamin Franklin, to have in your head when working through a series of tasks to help keep focused.

Robert Dundas
Sales Director

Interesting Fact:  One of my life goals is to be able to speak French, I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for the last five years, and I’m still rubbish! 

Favourite Music: Where do I even start! Tom Petty Running Down a Dream, this is my top-down driving next to the ocean song

Favourite Quote: “This time will pass”

ASHLEY DEXTER
CFO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I was nearly named Battle Dexter (I would have probably now been residing in one of His Majesty’s establishments)

Favourite Music: Even though I spent a few years in the music industry my taste of music was always a cause for concern with my colleagues, so to surprise them all my current favourite is Kids by MGMT (absolute belter)

Favourite Quote: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Ian Venner
CTO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Runs Red Lantern Records, a not-for-profit, ethical label as a side project, whose artists have regular national BBC radio airplay.

Favourite Music: Tom Waits, pretty much all of his work.  Beautifully observed avante-garde vignettes of life.  Oh, and anything really loud!

Favourite Quote: “It’s not the mountains we climb, but the grit in our shoe that grinds us down” – which sums up taking a business from start-up to enterprise.

Martyn Noble
CEO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Played a high standard of semi-professional rugby union (too many years ago now!)

Favourite Music: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…my first live gig – Knebworth 11th August 1979, the track never grows old and is the iconic song of ‘hope’ whatever mood you are in when listening too it…and I’m still trying to work out what the lyrics mean!!

Favourite Quote: “Know your customers, Know your People, Know your Numbers” – plagiarised from Sir John Harvey Jones when I met him very early on in my career and values I stick to in my business life.